The Paradise Lost
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781-5. So saying, fyc. : When Dido,- in the fourth ^Eneid, 166-68, yielded to that fatal temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the earth trembled, the heavens were filled with flashes of lightning, and the nymphs howled upon the mountain-tops. Milton, in the same poetical spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating- the forbidden fruit. — A.
792. Knew not eating death •' Knew not (she was) eating that which was the procuring cause ot death.
794. Thus to herself, fyc. ...: As our author had, in the preceding conference betwixt our first parents, described, with the greatest art and decency, the subordination and inferiority of the female character in the strength of rea- son and understanding, so in this soliloquy of Eve's, after tasting the forbid- book ix. 399 sov'reigD, virtuous, precious of all trees 795 In Paradise, of operation blest To sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed, And thy fair fruit let hang, as to no end Created ; but henceforth my early care, Not without song, each morning, and due praise, 800 Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches, offer'd free to all ; Till, dieted by thee, I grow mature In knowledge, as the Gods who all things know ; Though others envy what they cannot give ; 805 For had the gift been theirs, it had not here Thus grown.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
781-5. So saying, fyc. : When Dido,- in the fourth ^Eneid, 166-68, yielded to that fatal temptation which ruined her, Virgil tells us the earth trembled, the heavens were filled with flashes of lightning, and the nymphs howled upon the mountain-tops. Milton, in the same poetical spirit, has described all nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating- the forbidden fruit. — A.
792. Knew not eating death •' Knew not (she was) eating that which was the procuring cause ot death.
794. Thus to herself, fyc. ...: As our author had, in the preceding conference betwixt our first parents, described, with the greatest art and decency, the subordination and inferiority of the female character in the strength of rea- son and understanding, so in this soliloquy of Eve's, after tasting the forbid- book ix. 399 sov'reigD, virtuous, precious of all trees 795 In Paradise, of operation blest To sapience, hitherto obscured, infamed, And thy fair fruit let hang, as to no end Created ; but henceforth my early care, Not without song, each morning, and due praise, 800 Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches, offer'd free to all ; Till, dieted by thee, I grow mature In knowledge, as the Gods who all things know ; Though others envy what they cannot give ; 805 For had the gift been theirs, it had not here Thus grown.
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